>After the hearing is set, Cap and Iron Man both reflect on Ant-Man’s fate. Cap remembers a time in the war when he almost harmed a civilian child and Stark wonders how anyone could get over creating a death machine like Ultron. Really, though he doesn’t outright say so, Iron Man is comparing Ant-Man to himself- for he too is a designer of dangerous weapons. The writing on Shooter’s part here is quite good, as their different perspectives on this character give insight into their own. It’s hard for me to believe that any part of this was a “mistake.”
>Later, after trying to talk him into bed and being rejected, Wasp steals into her husband’s lab to sneak a peek at his secret project. When he discovers her there he is very upset, which is important, because it establishes that he didn’t want to clue her in
>now he’s basically a full-blown supervillain. His project, the one he’s been working on in secret, is a killer adamantium robot designed to take out his fellow Avengers. The plan was to attack them during his court-martial before they could formally expel him. Then, in the heat of battle, Pym himself would strike the victory blow, having built a weak spot into the robot’s frame. The Avengers would be so impressed by this that they forget all about him shooting an unarmed woman in the back.
>Well, Janet isn’t impressed, so what does this “Goliath” of a hero do? He just attacks his own unsuspecting wife right there with his new indestructible kill-bot
>For the record, that’s four acts of violence against women already and we haven’t even gotten to the panel yet. Here it is, the shot Shooter says was misfired, the one Sienkiewicz allegedly lamented upon, the one that they didn’t have time to redo before it went to the presses, the one for which so many excuses are made
